Chicago IL: Homewood Publishing Company. Hard Cover. Pages clean except for a faint pencil ghost at the front free endpaper and a little very gentle age toning at the outside edges of the page block; binding relaxed and just barely starting at the front hinge, otherwise square and secure. Red... More about Rollo in Switzerland
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1888. Cloth Hardcover. Copyright 1888, but definitely a post-1899 printing. Crisp, clean pages except for a gift note at the front free endpaper and moderate age-toning throughout; square, secure binding; red cloth cover shows some softening and rubbing at spine ends and a few... More about Bob Burton; or, The Young Ranchman of the Missouri
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. Illustrated by the Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages crisp and clean except for a prior seller's sticker on the final endpaper and a hint of toning around the outside edges; no owners' marks; binding square and tight, full orange cloth hard cover only gently... More about Salute
New York: American Book Company, 1910. Hardcover. Pages clean except for a prior owner's name twice on the front endpapers, repeated in the bound margin of p.15, as well as some dust staining around the edges and spots of toning and foxing on the endpapers; binding is mildly relaxed but... More about Stories of the King
New York: Bramhall House, 1962. Caldecott, Crane, Greenaway, Rackham, Parrish, and historical woodcuts. Hard Cover. Large 4to. Pages crisp and clean except for mild toning in the margins; binding square, full cloth cover only modestly rubbed at spine ends and corners; dust jacket shows modest sunning along the spine, a.... More about The Annotated Mother Goose
North Liberty, IA: Ice Cube Press, 2012. Soft Cover. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; except for mild shelf rubbing at the corners and spine ends of the soft cover, excellent. More about For the Love of Pete : An Orphan Train Story
Boston, MA: Little Brown & Company, 1891. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman. Hard Cover. Paper over quarter cloth; 263pp. The pages of this copy are remarkably bright, clean except for prior owner's names at the reverse of the front free endpaper and reverse of the frontispiece; the frontispiece is detached... More about The Cruise of a Land Yacht
New York: The Viking Press, 1945. Bemelmans, Ludwig. Hardcover. 4to. Pages clean, though moderately age-toned throughout; binding secure, blue quarter cloth briefly frayed at the spine ends and showing some fading along the spine, tiny spots of finish attenuation, and a pale spot at the left front, otherwise clean and... More about Hansi
Twodot, 1995. Soft Cover. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; except for a little delicate shelf rubbing at the corners of the soft cover, as new. More about Pony Bob's Daring Ride: A Pony Express Adventure
Daily Express / Express Newspapers PLC, 1992. Hard Cover. No owners' marks; pages are clean, crisp and bright; binding is square and tight; there is some fading to the spine and visible shelf-wear to the publisher's sticker on the front cover, otherwise as new. More about Rupert's Adventure Book (Rupert Annual 1940: Facsimile Edition
Atheneum, 1999. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author at the title page with no inscription or named recipient. Clean and bright; binding tight, hard cover somewhat softened and rubbed at spine ends with gentler rubbing at corners; jacket has a few very shallow handling creases around the... More about The Folk Keeper
Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling, 1928. Schaupp, Richard. Hardcover. Language: German (blackletter typeface). Pages clean except for mild toning and scattered specking in the margins and at the endpapers; no owners' marks; sewn binding is somewhat relaxed, but secure, though the cloth over the spine is frayed at both ends with small... More about Das Märlein von den drei Schneiderlein
New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1966. Royt, Kevin. Hard Cover. Pages crisp and clean, with no owners' marks; binding square and tight; cloth hard cover has some mild rubbing and softening at the spine ends and corners, otherwise excellent. Jacket is unclipped but has small, open tears at the corners... More about Happy Ranch
Grosset & Dunlap, 1929. Hard Cover. Crisp, clean pages except for a prior owner's name on the back of the front free endpaper; binding square and tight; pictorial hard cover shows a small surface abrasion at the upper right front corner, some shelf rubbing at the corners and spine ends... More about The Little Swiss Wood Carver
Vechta: Vechtaer Druckerei und Verlag. Staple-bound Softcover. Language: Low German / Plattdeutsch. Pages crisp and clean except for an ink stamp on the first page and very light toning in the margins; binding is secure, paper cover mildly faded along the spine and upper edges and a bit chipped at... More about Van Land un Lü (Plattdeutsche Lesestoffe für Oldenburger Schulen
Harper & Row, 1990. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date or inscription; binding is square and tight, hard cover only very lightly dust-spotted at the head edges, otherwise excellent. Jacket, unclipped and now protected in a clear sleeve, remains pristine. More about Everywhere
New York, NY: Abingdon Press, 1960. Hutchinson, William M. First Printing. Hard Cover. Pages crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; binding square and tight, pictorial hard cover modestly shelf-rubbed at the corners and lower edges but otherwise clean and lovely. The unclipped dust jacket has small tears and some... More about Jesus Goes to the Synagogue
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1952. Howe, Gertrude. Hard Cover. Pages crisp and clean except for faint toning at the outer margins; no owners' marks. Binding square and tight; hard cover shows a little faint wear along the spine shoulders and at the heel. The dust jacket has three open... More about Thanks to Letty
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1965. Kaufmann, John. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the title page. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; pictorial hard cover shows only light surface rubbing at spine ends and corners; dust jacket bears edgewear and a few... More about The Empty Schoolhouse
New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1941. Holland, Janice (color work); Stein, Harve (black and white). Hard Cover. The pages of this copy clean and bright, apart from some faint age toning at the margins and some slightly darker toning at the page block edges; the binding is secure, if... More about Marta Finds the Golden Door
Akron Ohio USA: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1939. Muheim, Henry. Hard Cover. Pages remarkably crisp, bright, and clean aside from a square of mild toning from newsprint on two pages; no owners' marks; binding square and tight. The pictorial hard cover shows gentle handling marks front and back, spots of... More about Pinocchio
Edgwood Publishing Co., 1889. Bennett, J. Hardcover. Pages crisp and clean except for clear tape repair at both hinges and modest age-toning in the margins throughout; no owners' marks. Binding is square and secure, the full tan cloth hard cover howing some handling wear causing loss of inked decoration at... More about Hairbreadth Escapes of Major Mendax: His Perilous Encounters, Startling Adventures, and Daring...
New York: Margaret K McElderry, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover. Clean, bright pages; no owners' marks; square, tight binding. Except for a small wrinkle at the spine heel of hard cover and dust jacket and very faint rubbing at the bottom corners of the jacket, as new. More about A Stolen Life
Walker Books, 2017. Kim, Jaime. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Clean and bright; corners and spine ends of hard cover turn somewhat inward and bear spots of surface scuffing at tips, and the dust jacket is absent, otherwise well-kept. More about La La La: A Story of Hope
Harper & Row, 1981. Hardcover. Long 8vo. Pages clean, with no owners' marks, though there is a crease across the bottom corner of the final free endpaper; spine leans to the right, but binding remains secure; hard cover shows some yellowish spotting and dust staining at the right and lower... More about If You Call My Name
